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driving force

n. the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [syn: drive, thrust]

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Driving Force (TV series)

Driving Force is an American reality television program which premiered July 17, 2006, on A&E, and ended on May 15, 2007. It was centered on champion drag racer John Force and his daughters, also drag racers.

Driving Force (album)

Driving Force is 3rd Force's sixth studio album and seventh overall. It was released on February 1, 2005.

Driving Force

Driving Force may refer to:

  • Driving Force (TV series), an American reality television program
  • Driving Force (album), an album by 3rd Force
  • Driving Force (arcade game), a 1984 arcade game by Shinkai; See List of arcade video games: D
  • Logitech Driving Force, a model of Gran Turismo official steering wheel
Driving Force (film)

Driving Force is a 1989 action film directed by A.J. Prowse.

Usage examples of "driving force".

With Jaina as the driving force, they took on the repair project as a group exercise-but they always managed to work in any assigned practice sessions during their jungle expeditions.

Whatever the driving force behind his work, it opened the gates to more and better psychological detective fiction.

Without us and our techniques and our orchestrated use of terror there would be no Soviet Russia, no Soviet Empire, no driving force to keep the rulers of the Party all powerful and nowhere on earth would there be a Communist state.

If they were going to blame him for what had happened, at least they ought to realise that without the driving force of his personality nobody would have been saved and the loss of life would have been that much greater.

Even if he killed her afterward, before she died she wanted to feel him within her, absorb his driving force, cool this insane, inexorable fever that burned in her flesh for him.

It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call viriditas, and it is the driving force in the cosmos.

It had been routine, simply routine with her work as the driving force.

For all that, I think I could have kept going longer than any of them, even Zabrinski, for I had the motivation, the driving force that would have kept me going hours after my legs would have told me that it was impossible to carry on a step further.

When three Americans blasted off from Canaveral for their journey to Mars, say in the year 2005, when that great surge of energy which marked the 1960-1970 epoch was re-created by some driving force as yet unidentified, they would be starting on a journey of about 200,000,000 miles one way at a speed of 25,000 miles an hour, which would then be feasible.